Quotes
Quotes - Burton
As he said in Machiavel, omnes eodem patre nati, Adam's sons, conceived all and born in sin, etc. "We are by nature all as one, all alike, if you see us naked; let us wear theirs and they our clothes, and what is the difference?"
Set a beggar on horseback and he will ride a gallop.
Christ himself was poor.... And as he was himself, so he informed his apostles and disciples, they were all poor, prophets poor, apostles poor.
Who cannot give good counsel? 'T is cheap, it costs them nothing.
Many things happen between the cup and the lip.
What can't be cured must be endured.
Everything, saith Epictetus, hath two handles,--the one to be held by, the other not.
All places are distant from heaven alike.
The commonwealth of Venice in their armoury have this inscription: "Happy is that city which in time of peace thinks of war."
"Let me not live," saith Aretine's Antonia, "if I had not rather hear thy discourse than see a play."
Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta Porcellus at his fingers' end.
Birds of a feather will gather together.
And this is that Homer's golden chain, which reacheth down from heaven to earth, by which every creature is annexed, and depends on his Creator.
And hold one another's noses to the grindstone hard.
Every man for himself, his own ends, the Devil for all.
No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.
To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.
He is only fantastical that is not in fashion.
[Quoting Seneca] Cornelia kept her in talk till her children came from school, "and these," said she, "are my jewels."
To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.
Marriage and hanging go by destiny; matches are made in heaven.
Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.
Though it rain daggers with their points downward.
Going as if he trod upon eggs.
I light my candle from their torches.
